Recent content by JBCrowson

As with all world building ideas, everything will depend on your execution of it. I look forward to hearing more of your progress / reading samples of your craft.

You are clear in saying you write in response to an inner drive, which I'll refer to as your creative dictator. In thinking about how to respond to the situation you find yourself in, perhaps some of these questions will help, that is my intent in posting them... There is a distinction between...

I have not tried, I have seen on some of the poetry websites people writing poem-stories as long as novels. None were in a fantasy setting from what I saw, but I did not have time and interest enough to read any of the works. I would guess the story-telling would be similar, in that the...

Interesting lore to backdrop a story. What's the story going to be about?

Hi Mark, welcome to mythic scribes. Six books already, wow. Look forward to hearing about them.

Hi Adam, welcome aboard

Like some of the above I use real world names as seeds for my fantasy names, and use different RW locations for the seed for different cultures. Really old names like some of the gods, demons, I will start with a description of a major feature of the entity, then translate that into Scottish or...

For me (and of course this is only one person's view) fantasy asks the reader to set aside some of what they know about the world and substitute some alternate rules of the writer's instead. However there's only a certain amount of setting aside the rules of our world you can ask me to do...

Glad to hear you're feeling better Dolly

Better to find the hole now than on Kindle, lol. Happy Friday Tuesday (sorry, feeling frivolous and just wanted to type that!)

I mean, there's signs of them all over the place, like scattering seeds... or beer cans. Lots of sightings, too, but that could just be another unicorn thing. I think sightings of men are really unicorns, think about it. Men supposedly have this big thing sticking up out the front of them -...

OK, (takes deep breath) draft 2 is done, just shy of 105k words. Off to the beta readers with it, if I can lure the sullen beasts from their indolent stupor. Onto book 2 draft 2, which is looking a lot bigger piece of work than it did, owing to the changes to book one's structure.

I think this is an area that is likely to change, perhaps is already. People have become accustomed to emojis and the text renditions of them, so <3 them or not, the typographic lexicon is expanding. Personally, I use single questions marks and rarely single exclamation marks. Not only do I not...

Made some good progress, finished the rewrite of The King's Ball chapter, and closed off two minor characters' arcs. 103k words, 13k of those this month. A scene with the antagonist to set up the finale properly, review some of the in-world chapter epigrams and draft two could be about done.

Re-worked a scene, cut out some navel fluff last night, added the biggest missing piece, now at 100k.